[geeks] Background process

[Will Mc Donald]

If I've got the right end of the stick I think nohup is what you're after.
If disconnects a program from the controlling terminal making it ignore all
SIGHUP signals.

man nohup

Basically you just run something like...

$ nohup my_c_prog &

A nohup.out file is created in your current working directory or is that
isn't possible you home directory.

I was actually thinking about this last night, is there any way to take
control of a nohup-ed process again if you've logout of the initiating
shell?

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: [geeks] Background process


> I have a C proggy that I wrote, and I want to be able to run it on my
> linux machine, and have it still running even if my terminal gets
> disconnected.  Cron or at would launch it the way I want it launched, but
> it seems to me that there should be an easier way to launch such a
> program.  Any comments?  Tips for Solaris would also be helpful, if
> solaris differs from linux.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd